![Ask the Dust](http://massivebookshop.com/cdn/shop/products/9780060822552-us-300_{width}x.jpg?v=1659374351)
Author/Contributor(s): | Fante, John |
Publisher: | Ecco Press |
Date: | 02/07/2006 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Condition: | NEW |
Ask the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress. Struggling to survive, he perseveres until, at last, his first novel is published. But the bright light of success is extinguished when Camilla has a nervous breakdown and disappears . . . and Bandini forever rejects the writer's life he fought so hard to attain.